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    Trump officials set new requirements for COVID vaccines in healthy adults and children
    Annual COVID-19 shots for healthy younger adults and children will no longer be routinely approved under a major new policy shift unveiled Tuesday by the Trump administration.
    Updated COVID-19 vaccines are available, as well as annual flu shots for people 6 months and older. For those 60 and older or for people who are pregnant, you may want to get the RSV vaccine.
    JD Vance won’t say much at the Naval Academy graduation. You should listen anyway.
    Vice presidential addresses receive far less attention than those given by presidents. The Biden effect makes it a mistake, however, to ignore what the VP has to say.
    President Donald Trump will speak at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday, one day after Vice President JD Vance gives the commencement address at the Naval Academy commissioning ceremony in Annapolis.
    Supreme Court allows Trump to strip protections from some Venezuelans; deportations could follow
    The court’s order, with only one noted dissent, puts on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco.
    WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 10: The U.S. Supreme Court Building as the court hears oral arguments on whether to overturn or delay a law that could lead to a ban of TikTok in the U.S., on January 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. The future of the popular social media plaform is at stake at stake as the Supreme Court hears arguments on a law set to take effect the day before Inauguration Day that would force their China-based parent company to cut ties with TikTok due to national security concerns. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
    Former President Joe Biden diagnosed with aggressive form of prostate cancer, reviewing treatment options
    Former President Joe Biden was seen last week by doctors after urinary symptoms and a prostate nodule was found.
    U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the progress his administration is making to lower costs for the American people at Prince George's County Community College on August 15, 2024.
    The future of history: Trump could leave less documentation behind than any previous US president
    Donald Trump's administration says it's the most transparent in history. But it's taken even more drastic steps than his first to shield key documents and information from the public.
    President Donald Trump speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House, Thursday, May 8, 2025, in Washington.
    Judge: Trump administration’s claim of state secrets privilege in Kilmar Abrego Garcia case is ‘inadequate’
    A U.S. district judge ordered Abrego Garcia’s return in April and has since directed the administration to provide documents and testimony showing what it has done, if anything, to comply.
    In a photo posted to his official X account on Thursday, April 17, 2025, Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia during a trip to El Salvador this week.
    Supreme Court could block Trump’s birthright citizenship order but limit nationwide injunctions
    The Supreme Court seemed intent Thursday on maintaining a block on President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship while looking for a way to scale back nationwide court orders.
    The United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. on Friday, January 3, 2025.
    What to know about the Supreme Court arguments in the birthright citizenship case
    The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Thursday in its first case stemming from the blitz of actions that have marked the start of President Donald Trump’s second term.
    The United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. on Friday, January 3, 2025.
    Alsobrooks, RFK Jr. spar during testy Senate hearing
    “Sir, you are the wrong person for this job,” U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks told Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a budget hearing on Wednesday.
    U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks has repeatedly called on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign from his post as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
    Deportation suspended for two women held in ‘inhumane’ Baltimore holding room
    Both women were sent by ICE to detention facilities in New Jersey and Colorado over the weekend.
    The George H. Fallon Federal Building at 31 Hopkins Plaza in downtown Baltimore, where ICE continues to hold detained immigrants.
    Federal grand jury indicts Wisconsin judge in immigration case, allowing charges to continue
    A federal grand jury indicted a Wisconsin judge on charges she helped a man in the country illegally evade U.S. immigration authorities looking to arrest him as he appeared before her in a local domestic abuse case.
    A sign is posted outside of county Judge Hannah Dugan's courtroom at the Milwaukee County courthouse, April 25, 2025, in Milwaukee.
    Under Armour lost $200M last year and says Trump tariffs add uncertainty this year
    Under Armour, a Baltimore-based sports apparel company, reported its most recent fiscal year earnings on Tuesday.
    The newly-opened Under Armour store located on the company's Baltimore Peninsula campus during the store's grand opening on December 7, 2024.
    Trump hush money trial lawyer named acting librarian of Congress, replacing Carla Hayden
    Blanche replaces Carla Hayden, the longtime librarian whom the White House fired last week amid criticism from some conservatives that she was advancing a “woke” agenda.
    Blanche replaces Carla Hayden, the longtime librarian whom the White House fired last week.
    Judge orders Trump administration to halt much of the massive federal workforce downsizing
    The Trump administration must halt much of its dramatic downsizing of the federal workforce, a California judge ordered Friday.
    WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 26: U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to sign an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on March 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump is expected to announce automobile tariffs on foreign-made cars.
    Carla Hayden let Lizzo play a Founding Father’s flute. Is that why Trump fired her?
    Carla Hayden, the nation’s first female and first Black Librarian of Congress, fired Thursday by Trump, "will remain a Maryland treasure," her fellow Maryland librarians say.
    Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden speaks during a discussion with historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Jon Meacham on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, on how "to establish and preserve the narrative of January 6th." The event marked the first anniversary of the U.S. Capitol insurrection, the violent attack by Trump supporters that has fundamentally changed the Congress and raised global concerns about the future of American democracy.
    Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter, a Republican who became a liberal darling, dies at 85
    Souter died Thursday at his home in New Hampshire, the Supreme Court said in a statement Friday.
    Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
    Should Naval Academy leader push back on Trump’s book ban? 600 grads say yes.
    In an open letter to Vice Adm. Yvette Davids, hundreds of Naval Academy grads cited the decision to remove 381 books from the library catalogue as the latest sign that she isn’t fulfilling her duty to protect a diversity of ideas.
    Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth walks alongside Vice Adm. Yvette Davids, academy superintendent, during his visit to the U.S. Naval Academy on April 1, 2025.
    President Trump fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
    The move infuriated Congressional Democrats who accused Trump of attempting to shut down 'history, progress and learning'.
    Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden was fired abruptly by Trump.
    Trump officials silent as firefighters lobby to reopen training academy in Maryland
    Firefighters, a widely-respected constituency that Trump has courted, say they are having a tough time lobbying against the administration’s cuts — or even getting administration officials to respond to them.
    Members of the national firefighting community walk the campus of the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg following the annual fallen firefighters memorial.
    Maryland loses 550 AmeriCorps positions to Trump administration cuts
    Maryland lawmakers and AmeriCorps partners are asking the community to step in to save their organizations and programs as the Trump administration moves to significantly cut the federal agency.
    Alexandria Warrick Adams, executive director of Elev8 Baltimore, said at a Thursday press conference that Maryland communities and children will feel the effects of AmeriCorps cuts.
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